Poem: Progress
So you bought a journal…
Category: JOURNALING
Prayer Guides: Journaling with the Holy Spirit
I co-wrote these guides for the Fayetteville Prayer Room with my friend, Lana, who guides contemplative prayer gatherings here. Prayer Journaling with Scripture...
Printable One-page Journaling Guides
Click the images below to view and print Prayer Journaling Guides from the Fayetteville Prayer Room. If you are using your phone, I recommend viewing them in &#...
Bookend Your Year with Stillness
We are silent in the early hours of each day, because God is supposed to have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep, because to God also belon...
Journaling Vulnerably: Trust and Transformation
Many Christians settle for salvation, then wait for heaven. We read about the freedom and wholeness Jesus proclaims, and we dream about the peace and joy that s...
Journaling Vulnerably: Ask God About It
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense and don’t know why, I ask myself questions and follow the thought-train it rele...
Journaling Vulnerably: Find Solitude and Consider Your Emotions
I like to think of time in solitude as breathing in and breathing out. In solitude, BREATHE IN scripture. Expect God to speak to you personally as you read. Som...
Journaling Scripture: The Two Pen Approach
Many of the journaling guides I have shared integrate scripture reading, but none tell how to simply use your journal in your personal Bible study. So here begi...
Journaling Scripture: Invite God to Exhort You
Exhort means “to spur on, build up and encourage… to reprove, rebuke and correct.” Some of us have trouble letting God encourage us, while some of us have...
Journaling Scripture: Write it Out Real and Raw and Deep
The Bible is full of promises, precepts and descriptors. When you read one, stop and journal it. JOURNALING SCRIPTURE’S PROMISES When I read something in ...
Journaling Scripture: Use Your Imagination
Try personalizing stories from scripture by putting yourself in the shoes of Bible characters. Whether it’s Gideon in a winepress or Mary Magdalene at the empty...
Journaling to Rest
“Cast all your cares on Him. For He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 An Invitation to Rest Once your Bible and journal are open, you are in a sacred space. Prepare y...
Journaling to Settle Anxieties
I often use my journal to pry into my own subconscious thoughts. When I am tense with worry or am nervous about a decision, I ask myself a few simple questions....
Journaling to Remember
The night before Jesus died, he told the disciples that the Holy Spirit would “teach [them] all things and bring to remembrance all that He had said to [t...
Journaling to Plan: Keep Your Keep
As Solomon writes in Ecclesiastes 3, there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens. Likewise there is an hour for every activ...
Journaling to Plan: Find Your Annual Rhythm
This is the first in a set of three journal entry-starters. Find the introduction here. JOURNALING TO PLAN I. How can you nourish your soul this season? I...
Journaling to Plan: Choose Your Harvest
In your journal, you can zoom out for a bird’s-eye view of your life to assess your trajectory. Examine yourself by working backwards and forwards through Ralph...
Journaling to Plan: The Annual Backpack Sort
Twice a year, I stop to ask God questions about my purpose and my progress. He reminds me of how he designed me and what he has called me to do. Then we examine...
SPIRITUAL JOURNALING: Get Started
YOUR JOURNAL. Some people treat their journals like a secret, some open them up during conversations. Some neatly color code their entries, some scratch illegib...
SPIRITUAL JOURNALING: Why Journal
WHY JOURNAL. Your white page is a space to explore a concept and flesh out a thought. It’s a place to weigh decisions and evaluate everything beside God’s Word....
How I Study My Children and Nurture Their Natures
God designed the gambit of skills, interests, personalities, bodies, characteristics, learning styles and spiritual gifts then artfully whisked them together to...
Choosing Solitude and Simplicity: My Story of Turning Down the Noise and Decluttering My Soul
Simple living is a hot topic lately, both in print and in the echo chamber of the internet. The idea is not so much a new trend as a return- we are grownup chil...
How I Made Bible Reading and Prayer a Daily Habit
I can believe something without knowing it. For years sermons and accountability meetings nudged me to make Bible study a priority and I believed them, but I di...